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Democratic education

About: Democratic education is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1398 publications have been published within this topic receiving 47818 citations.


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01 Jan 1916
TL;DR: Dewey's "Common Sense" as mentioned in this paper explores the nature of knowledge and learning as well as formal education's place, purpose, and process within a democratic society, and it continues to influence contemporary educational thought.
Abstract: First published in 1916, this classic continues to influence contemporary educational thought. Considered one of the great American philosophers, Dewey grapples with the nature of knowledge and learning as well as formal education's place, purpose, and process within a democratic society.

15,527 citations

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21 Apr 1989
TL;DR: The authors argue that children are increasingly prone to take superiority over others as the definition of success and that an emphasis on interpersonal competition, which permeates Western society, exacerbates this egotistical tendency and results in diminished accomplishment and alienation from school.
Abstract: Young children and even infants work hard at mastering various kills and show spontaneous pleasure at their own accomplishment. John Nicholls explores the conditions that cause students to lose their unselfconscious involvement in a game or task and become concerned with how they are stacking up against others. Charting the development of children s concepts of luck, effort, and ability, he argues that with age they are increasingly prone to take superiority over others as the definition of success. An emphasis on interpersonal competition, which permeates Western society, exacerbates this egotistical tendency and results in diminished accomplishment and alienation from school.To overcome these problems, Nicholls argues, we must become as little children for whom absorption in exploration and accomplishment come naturally, even when those around them are more competent. This ideal is unlikely to be promoted through technical approaches to education, or by the current emphasis on the role of education in economic development. Instead, Nicholls calls for a progressive approach to education. Difficult though it is to implement, this approach is most likely to increase equality of motivation for intellectual development, substantial accomplishment, satisfaction in work, and more productive relations with others. These are important ideas for anyone interested in achievement motivation, for those professionally involved in education, and for nonspecialists interested in, or worried about, how we educate our children."

2,612 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the spectrum of ideas about what good citizenship is and what good citizens do that are embodied in democratic education programs and demonstrate that the narrow and often ideologically conservative conception of citizenship embedded in many current efforts at teaching for democracy reflects not arbitrary choices but, rather, political choices with political consequences.
Abstract: Educators and policymakers increasingly pursue programs that aim to strengthen democracy through civic education, service learning, and other pedagogies. Their underlying beliefs, however, differ. This article calls attention to the spectrum of ideas about what good citizenship is and what good citizens do that are embodied in democratic education programs. It offers analyses of a 2-year study of educational programs in the United States that aimed to promote democracy. Drawing on democratic theory and on findings from their study, the authors detail three conceptions of the “good” citizen—personally responsible, participatory, and justice oriented—that underscore political implications of education for democracy. The article demonstrates that the narrow and often ideologically conservative conception of citizenship embedded in many current efforts at teaching for democracy reflects not arbitrary choices but, rather, political choices with political consequences.

1,875 citations

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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: The Politics of Common Sense: Why the Right is Winning 3. Cultural Politics and the Text 4. Regulating Official Knowledge 5. Creating the Captive Audience: Channel One and the Political Economy of the Text 6. Whose Curriculum is This Anyway? (with Susan Jungck) 7. Hey Man I'm Good! The Art and Politics of Creating New Knowledge in Schools 8. Education, Power, and Personal Biography: An Interview as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: 1. Introduction: The Politics of Official Knowledge 2. The Politics of Common-sense: Why the Right is Winning 3. Cultural Politics and the Text 4. Regulating Official Knowledge 5. Creating the Captive Audience: Channel One and the Political Economy of the Text 6. Whose Curriculum is This Anyway? (with Susan Jungck) 7. Hey Man, I'm Good! The Art and Politics of Creating New Knowledge in Schools 8. The Politics of Pedagogy and the Building of Community Appendix Education, Power, and Personal Biography: An Interview.

1,313 citations

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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The authors The Will to Learn: The World as Classroom 2. Time Out: Classrooms without Boundaries 3. Talking Race and Racism 4. Democratic Education 5. What Happens When White People Change 6. Standards 7. Moving beyond Shame 9. Keepers of Hope: Teaching in Communities 10. Progressive Learning: A Family Value 11. Heart to Heart: Teaching with Love 12. Good Sex: Passionate Pedagogy 13. Spirituality in education 14. This Is Our Life: Teaching toward Death 15. Spiritual Matters in the Classroom 16. Practical Wisdom
Abstract: Preface: Teaching and Living in Hope 1. The Will to Learn: The World as Classroom 2. Time Out: Classrooms without Boundaries 3. Talking Race and Racism 4. Democratic Education 5. What Happens When White People Change 6. Standards 7. How Can We Serve 8. Moving beyond Shame 9. Keepers of Hope: Teaching in Communities 10. Progressive Learning: A Family Value 11. Heart to Heart: Teaching with Love 12. Good Sex: Passionate Pedagogy 13. Spirituality in Education 14. This Is Our Life: Teaching toward Death 15. Spiritual Matters in the Classroom 16. Practical Wisdom

1,270 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
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202226
202160
202067
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201897